{"id":1038166,"date":"2026-10-27T03:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T03:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1038166\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T03:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T03:51:21","slug":"giants-john-harbaugh-declares-himself-day-to-day-after-devin-singletary-tackle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1038166\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants&#8217; John Harbaugh declares himself &#8216;day-to-day&#8217; after Devin Singletary tackle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Harbaugh proclaimed himself \u201cday-to-day\u201d Monday after the head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/25\/sports\/john-harbaugh-tackled-by-devin-singletary-in-giants-celebration\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was tackled by Devin Singletary<\/a> following Singletary\u2019s game-winning touchdown in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/25\/sports\/devin-singletary-cam-skattebo-power-giants-to-overtime-upset-of-texans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Giants\u2019 27-21 overtime win<\/a> in Houston on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Harbaugh was able to laugh off the mishap in part because it came immediately following another victory for the NFC East-leading Giants as they head into a bye week, but the coach, in his first year with the Giants, acknowledged it was not his finest moment on the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so terrible,\u201d Harbaugh said with a smile on a Monday Zoom call. \u201cAs I was going down, all I could think was I just felt like a total non-athlete, over the hill [and] washed up. I don\u2019t know. I just felt so weak, so pathetic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That embarrassment didn\u2019t last long, as Harbaugh will take any win, no matter how it looks or what happens in the aftermath \u2014 including getting pulled to the ground by Singletary, whose 30-yard scoring run ended the game and moved them to 4-2-1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we were on the ground, laughing and enjoying the moment and celebrating the football joy moment of a touchdown run, it made all the sense in the world,\u201d Harbaugh said of the tackle. \u201cIt was just a great moment\u2026 We talked with our team about football joy. We talked about playing with joy. What is football joy? It\u2019s different than other kinds of joy\u2026 Football joy is kind of gritty, kind of tough. That was a football joy moment. That\u2019s why we do it. That\u2019s why the fans love it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.93811395;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41525732\" width=\"553\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/devin2.jpg\" alt=\"Giants running back Devin Singletary (26) tackles head coach John Harbaugh to the ground after a win over the Texans on Oct. 25, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-41525732\"\/>Giants running back Devin Singletary (26) tackles head coach John Harbaugh to the ground after a win over the Texans on Oct. 25, 2026. Fox<\/p>\n<p>And Harbaugh joked that with the bye week coming up, he\u2019ll have plenty of time to recover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a good thing we\u2019re not [practicing] full speed tomorrow,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cNo pads.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Harbaugh proclaimed himself \u201cday-to-day\u201d Monday after the head coach was tackled by Devin Singletary following Singletary\u2019s game-winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1038167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6649,7,2909,56,6,9],"class_list":["post-1038166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-devin-singletary","tag-football","tag-john-harbaugh","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117510844411661600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1038167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}